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生 kanji
life, genuine, birth
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
セイショウ
Kun readings
いきるいかすいけるうまれるうまれるうまれうまれうむおうはえるはやすきなまなま-なるなすむす-う
Words with 生
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1生計Popularlivelihood; living
- N1生死Popularlife and death; life or death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
- N1生理Popularphysiology; menstruation; one's period
- N1年生Popularnth-year student; nth-year pupil
- N1発生Popularoccurrence; incidence; outbreak; birth (e.g. of civilization); generation (of power, heat, etc.); production; ontogeny; development; growth; breeding
- N1野生Popularwild; growing wild; living in the wild; I; me
- N1新入生new student; freshman; first-year student
- —回生Popularresurrection; resuscitation; coming back to life; regeneration; nth-year university student
- —寄生Popularparasitism
- —共生Popularcoexistence; living together; symbiosis; paragenesis
- —原生Popularprimeval; primordial; primitive; pristine
- —厚生Popularwelfare; public welfare; social welfare; (former) Ministry of Health and Welfare
- —更生Popularrehabilitation; remaking one's life; starting life anew; rebirth; regeneration; reorganization; rebuilding; recovery; restoration; remaking; coming back to life; revival; resuscitation
- —塾生Popularcram school student; student of a private-tutoring school
- —新生Popularrebirth; new birth; nascent
- —生家Popularhouse where one was born; one's parents' house
- —生協Popularco-op; (consumers') cooperative
- —生後Popularpost-natal; since birth
- —生殖Popularreproduction
- —生成Popularcreation; generation; formation; derivation